The proper twist to express that something is highlighted is highlightno highlight.
In the media it is not uncommon to find phrases such as the following: “The pandemic has highlighted the role of science”, “The meeting has served to highlight the main problems” or “They highlighted that the 80 % use the networks to plan a trip.
According to the academic dictionary, highlight something is ‘underline it, highlight it’. This is the settled twist and recommended, and not highlightthat probably has emerged as a crossroads with the expression give relevancewhich has the close, though not equivalent, sense of ‘causing something to become relevant, important or significant’.
For this reason, in the previous examples it would have been more appropriate to write “The pandemic has highlighted the role of science”, “The meeting has served to highlight the main problems” and “They highlighted that the 80% use the networks to plan a trip.
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➤ highlightno to highlight
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